- Alec Baldwin appeared on the most recent episode of “Saturday Night Live.”
- Baldwin played Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s health secretary nominee.
- The show also saw Sarah Sherman play Matt Gaetz, Trump’s pick for attorney general.
It was hardly surprising that the latest episode of “Saturday Night Live” saw the cast debut impressions of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees.
Several of Trump’s more controversial picks, including Matt Gaetz as attorney general and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, have had a lot of people talking this week, and the “SNL” cast didn’t miss the opportunity to unpack the situation.
The NBC show saw James Austin Johnson’s Trump spoof introduce what he called “the most epic cabinet of all time,” which he said included “some of the most dynamic, free-thinking, animal-killing, sexually criminal, medically crazy people in the country.”
“We’ve got Elon and Matt Gaetz. That’s an ‘Alien vs. Predator.’ We’ve got Kristi Noem and RFK Jr. They’re killing the dogs, they’re killing the bears. And Melania will be working remotely from divorce,” Johnson said.
Sarah Sherman then entered as Gaetz, one of Trump’s most surprising selections so far. Gaetz has previously faced sexual misconduct allegations, and his nomination reportedly blind-sided many Republicans.
Sherman soon declared that she “had to resign from Congress because the confirmation process comes at the busiest time of year for me.”
“The holidays?” Johnson asked.
“Girls’ volleyball season,” Sherman said, before introducing Alec Baldwin as RFK Jr. — a well-known vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist.
With a rasping voice, Baldwin, who has previously played Trump on the show, said: “I am so honored to be the head of the Health and Human Services Department.”
“Americans need someone to teach them how to be healthy. Someone like me. A 70-year-old man with movie star looks and a worm in his brain,” he went on.
“Alright, I got to go; I got a dead dolphin in my car. I think I might saw it in half and dump it in Central Park,” he said, referencing Kennedy’s story about once having dumped a dead bear in Central Park.
Elsewhere in the episode, which saw British pop star Charli XCX make her hosting debut, Johnson made light of Trump’s increasingly close relationship with Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
“I can’t go back to Mar-a-Lago,” he said. “Elon is there, and he will not leave.”
Trump, Musk, and RFK Jr. appeared together alongside other cabinet picks at UFC 309 on Saturday.
The president-elect received a huge ovation from the crowd as he entered Madison Square Garden alongside a beaming Dana White.
